I know they’ve been few and far between lately, but here’s the calendar page for June in our second Studio Calendar. As you can see, this one features Deku and Ash in a little one-on-one.
When I saw Bulma and Butt Witch get paired up in the character raffle that set up these pages, I knew I wanted Bulma to top the green butt woman. Bulma’s got a bit of a reputation with strapons, and Butt Witch has been topping a lot more than usual thanks to the nature of her comic, so this is both a return to form for Bulma and a change of pace for Butt Witch.
Here’s the April page of the second Near Hentai Studio Calendar. I initially forgot I was trying to include more month-specific details, so I added bunny ears and a more Eastery background last-minute to this one.
Here’s the March page for our second calendar. In the first one I had Trunks and Goten as a unit, but I decided to use a different version of Trunks and so decided to split them up during the pairing-up stage. Goten ended up with Trunks’s dad, Vegeta, and lucky for me I already had a picture of them in the works at the time. So, I set that drawing aside, and then added some fun St. Patrick’s Day stuff to make it a more suitable March page.
I can’t believe it took me this long to get around to the February page of our second Calendar project. I suspect finishing the first NHS Calendar made me unknowingly file it away as “finished” in my head, and I just haven’t gotten deep enough into this second Calendar for it to feel real yet. Regardless, I did manage to get our second page out, with Beast Boy getting paired up with the Freeman boys. Since February is the month of love and all, I decided to put them in a love hotel.
I don’t normally make any effort to tie this calendar project to the months/holidays associated with it, but since I managed to get this page done before New Year’s I decided to rearrange the public release schedule so it can be my official New Year’s post. Since I normally post the One-Shot on the first this’ll also mean pushing that back a day, but that’s okay.
This is my new Calendar project. Like the first one, I’ve taken the top performers in the Studio (that is, the characters with the most frequently-used tags on the public site) and used a randomizer to create twelve random pairings. The lineup has changed slightly since the first Calendar, but there will be a lot of recurring faces. Our first page here sees Gon and Killua, who shared a slot in the pairing process, getting together with Helen Parr of The Incredibles. Gon and Killua got to work with Chi-Chi in the last Calendar, and Helen’s early Studio work had her getting double teamed by Trunks and Goten a lot, so this feels like a somewhat poetic match-up to me. I put them in the same location as some older New Year’s content I did on commission years ago, complete with a little letter banner in the background.
It’s telling to the amount of Dragon Ball content I’ve done that multiple random pairings with my most-used characters were just regular Dragon Ball ships. I did find it amusing that, at the time when I generated the pairings for the Calendar, I’d never actually drawn Goku with Bulma before. He has since gotten to join in on a threesome with her and Vegeta through an Ask, but this is still his first one-on-one with her. As the original main characters of the franchise, I’ve seen them paired up a lot in others’ works, but I guess I just never got around to drawing them together myself.
I thought a little Santa hat on Bulma would be cute for the December page, and when I eventually do another calendar I think I’d like to do more stuff like this. I did often try to use a color scheme that matched the month, but I think in the second calendar project I want to try and work in more iconography of the month into the pic, where I can.
Also, for anyone interested, here’s the Q&A video I did for Subscribers last month:
Here’s our penultimate page for the first Near Hentai Calendar! Vegeta got Mace and Jackie in the random shuffle, and I went back and forth on how to handle them. I considered having Mace and Jackie top Vegeta, since they’re usually used in that way. I didn’t want it to be too much like Chi-Chi’s page with Gon and Killua, though, and people like when Mace and Jackie bottom, so I made an exception and went this direction with them instead.
We’re reaching the end of this Calendar project, and I hope y’all are still enjoying it. Gon and Killua were another pair kept together in the shuffling, and they happened to wind up with Chi-Chi. I have another larger project I’ve been sitting on until this Calendar page came out, and now that it has I can start that soon. Don’t expect to see it for a while, though.
New page for the NHS Calendar, the project where the top performers (most frequently appearing) in the Near Hentai Studio get paired up randomly. I decided to keep Trunks and Goten as a pair for this, and they ended up with Siat, the protagonist of my old comic Eromugen. I imagine most of my followers today know her better as the girl who introduces you to the Studio in my game. Anyway, here she is with big half-Saiya-jin dicks in her.